From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:15:26 -0400 Subject: contribution in kernel community & testing kernel In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <97708.1458778526@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:06:37 +0530, shubham k said: > I want to work on x86 architecture. I am not sure how to go about unit > testing. I can use qemu for testing but i find kernel on x86 architecture > too big to compile. How i can get the smaller size kernel on x86 > architecture? 'make localmodconfig' is your friend. Just make sure you plug in all your USB devices at least once after rebooting, but before running it, so their modules will be probed - localmodconfig parses (among other things) the output of lsmod. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 848 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20160323/65794378/attachment.bin